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WORD OF ADMONITION:
You must recognize, sooner rather than later, that “the church” sells fear so that they can become your all in all.
Jesus says, “Fear Not” because HE is your all in all.
Choose Christ, NOT “church.”
THIS WEEK’S CHURCH
CATCHPHRASE
“Administration of the sacraments”
1) A phrase and teaching found NOWHERE
in Scripture.
“There will be the administration of the sacraments tonight at the evening
hour of worship.”
When God calls you to act, be ready. To live as a Son or Daughter of God is not for wimps. It takes a brave soul to walk away from the “religious/church” crowd and say…“not me.”
THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psalm 90:10
See the truth come to life!
THIS WEEK'S
"The Pastoral Office"
“When you listen to church leaders, you are listening to Christ!”
Being Out Of Adjustment
There is everywhere, on the part of
many “church members” a sickish tendency to perceive of themselves as needing no adjustment in doctrine when once they have become settled in certain self-satisfying forms which they have been persuaded to be pure divine truth. They lose the mental and spiritual elasticity which is an imperative pre-requisite for continuous acquirement of truth.
Our love dies in the cages of fixed forms and customs. Stagnation and petrifaction sets in. Before it is realized we have been made mummies in petrified dogmatism. What we then consider progress and growth consists of being indoctrinated and established in the forms. We lose the ability and the desire to test and try what is, and what is not of God.
An almost unavoidable consequence of such attitude is man-worship, even without being aware of it. We look to the teachers who have established our particular system that we are attached to, and dare not, or cannot, think for ourselves. We have become prisoners – slaves. We get into doctrinal ruts and grooves, and dare not (or are too lazy) to even try to get out of them. We are out of adjustment.
E. A. Larsen (1884-1978)
What year was “your church" started and who started it?